It had become a bigger, badder version of the Silk Road drug bazaar in its short life, but Evolution, founded on 14 January last year, has apparently been closed and one staffer is claiming the admins have scammed its huge user base. The site, based on the anonymising Tor network, was home to nearly 20,000 drug sales at the time of its apparent demise, far more than Silk Road or its subsequent iteration Silk Road 2, but also sold weapons, from guns to tasers hidden in fake cigarette packets, and plenty of fraud material.

Hahaa. It is good advice. Also, don't put your hard drive in a wood-chipper. Don't stick your finger in a running blender. And don't throw your cash in a blast furnace. Some people have to be told everything...

To be honest these dark markets have a shelf life of around a year or so before they get hacked or busted so it's probably wise for them to shut up shop or take the money and run before the law catches up with them. We're never going to be able to trust these markets by their very nature so yet more reasons why people should turn to decentralized exchanges so they don't need to worry about this stuff happening.